When Jesus says, "Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them," he attaches no condition. He does not add "unless their parents are undocumented," or "provided they were born to citizens."
Commentary: The terrifying images of Border Patrol's brute force deployed against families is the most visible manifestation of a violence that occurs every day all along the border under a policy known as Title 42.
Commentary: As people of faith who minister to migrants at the border, we have seen first-hand how fear of the other, fueled by racism and a politics of exclusion, enabled us to turn our back on the most vulnerable.